Bug#782823: Evince always crashes when called without arguments, error "rangecheck -15 \n Segmentation fault"

[Jason Crain]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:23:39PM +0100, George Bateman wrote:
> When I click on an Evince launcher from the Cinnamon menu, it causes
> Evince to appear briefly, then close. When I type "evince" in a
> terminal, the same thing happens, but I see the error text
> 
> rangecheck -15
> Segmentation fault
> 
> If I call "evince /tmp/test.pdf", it opens successfully, although I do
> see the error "(evince:1219): Gtk-WARNING **:
> gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -76
> and height 17". Similarly, opening downloaded PDFs from Firefox works
> OK.
> 
> This bug behaves similarly to
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762719, but doesn't
> appear to be the same one; I can reproduce that bug, but it gives
> different error messages etc. Also, this bug is not dependant on the
> previous file opened.

It's probably related to #762719, but I'd guess instead of a password
protected PDF, it's due to some other recently used bad file.  If you
still have this problem, can you try to clear the recently used list by:

    mv ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel ~/

And see if that fixes it?  And if it does fix it, go through
recently-used.xbel to see if you can find which document crashes evince?